Random musings about Verve Stamps, mixed-media and the artistry found in everyday life.

Colorful

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Happy Tuesday! I've been feeling a bit under the weather yesterday and today, so I'm just going to post a little card from my stash. This one uses last week's SCS color challenge - {CC285} pacific point, rich razzleberry and old olive, with a dessert option of adding doilies. I had recently downloaded these Doily Shapes from the Cutting Files, and wanted to give it a go, so I sat down to try to tame these wild colors.

I started by cutting the doilies out on textured pacific point with my Cricut and SCAL software. Next I added a white Marvy Mega scallop circle punch in between the two layer of doilies and used the Happy Hello set for the circle frame and sentiment in the center. I made the background paper myself using the flowers and leaves from the new Great Friend set and some pacific point, rich razzleberry and old olive inks. To dress things up, I added a scallop border, some hotfix rhinestones and a bit of rich razzleberry polka dot grosgrain.

And there you have it - a bit bolder than I normally go, but it's always fun to change things up a bit and get a fresh perspective on stamping! :) Hope you have a fabulous day - it's back to the couch for me.

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I'm Julee Tilman, owner and Illustrator for Verve Stamps and founder of the Mojo Monday sketch challenge. I'm also Mama to five year old identical twin boys. To read a little bit more about me click here.

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